Jonathan Webb is a lapsed neuroscientist and a former BBC science reporter, now working as the ABC’s science editor. He manages a team of 20 science journalists and producers working across radio, the web and social media, and appears regularly on Radio National.

Fred Watson has recently been appointed Australia’s first Astronomer-at-Large, following his career with the former Australian Astronomical Observatory. He is best known for his radio and TV broadcasts, talks, and other outreach programs, which earned him the 2006 Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science. He has also written a number of award-winning books and […]

Toby Walsh was named by the Australian newspaper as a “rock star” of Australia’s digital revolution. He is Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UNSW and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He regularly appears in the media talking about AI and robotics. His latest book, 2062: The World that AI Made was […]

Lisa Walker’s climate change comedy, Melt,  and her debut young adult novel, Paris Syndrome, came out this year. She has also published three other novels and an essay about climate change in Griffith Review. Lisa has previously worked in environmental communication and has Masters degrees in creative writing and natural resource management.

Melissa Sweet is an independent journalist, media columnist, author, blogger and researcher, and the founding editor of Croakey. She has been covering health matters for more than 25 years. She is the author or co-author of several books, including Inside Madness, The Big Fat Conspiracy, Ten Questions You Must Ask Your Doctor and Smart Health Choices.

With a background as a health policy advisor in Australia and the US, Lesley Russell is an adjunct associate professor at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney. She is a contributing editor at Croakey, and writes the regular Health Wrap column and CroakeyGO.

With a background as a health policy advisor in Australia and the US, Dr Lesley Russell is an adjunct associate professor at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney. She is a contributing editor at Croakey, and writes the regular Health Wrap column and CroakeyGO.

Nicola Redhouse is interested in the ways we conceive of mental experience. Her hybrid memoir Unlike the Heart: a story of brain and mind is out through UQP in March 2019. Her work is in Meanjin, Island magazine, The Big Issue and Kill Your Darlings. She has worked as a book editor for the past […]

Peter Polites is the author of two novels published by Hachette. Down the Hume (2017) and The Pillars (2019) His fiction is about gay life in western Sydney through a queer noir lens.